Dumaguete City (24 August) -- The Provincial Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) in Oriental Negros is set to put up task forces in different ports in the province in a bid to intensify efforts to combat trafficking in persons in the province.

QATAR, which is exerting intensive efforts to combat trafficking in humans, should join the UN Anti-Trafficking Protocol, Dr Usama al-Alusi, an expert at the Interior Ministry’s Human Rights Department suggested yesterday. "Though Qatar is implementing the National Strategy for Combating Trafficking, signing the protocol would show to the world that we comply with the requirements of the international community," he explained.

Members of the East African Women Parliamentary Association are to discuss methods of curbing child trafficking carried out at inter-country borderlines and international airports in the East African region.

For most people, the prospect of terrorists with fraudulent documents exploiting porous borders is reason enough to support tougher I.D. laws and a rise in numbers for the U.S. Border Patrol. Those who still aren't convinced should take a long, hard look at the alleged human-trafficking and prostitution ring that federal authorities broke up last week in seven states and the District of Columbia.

August 23rd marks the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. We observe it on this date because two hundred and fifteen years ago slaves, in what is today Haiti, rose up and threw off the shackles of their enslavement. Thirteen years later in 1804, they triumphed, making Haiti the first nation in the world founded on the abolishment of slavery.